5 Books: Ben Fountain

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer

Ben Fountain (Dallas, Ep. 1) lives in Dallas, Texas, where he prays for rain and waits for the Revolution. He is the author of "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara," "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," and the widely anthologized essay "How To Get a Book Contract in Only Seventeen Years."